MOOD in a Sentence

Learn MOOD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
235 example sentences for MOOD, such as:
1. I am not in the mood to argue.
2. Congress is in a combative mood.
3. He is clearly in a good mood today.
4. I wonder why he's in such a mood today.
5. The city is in a festive / holiday mood.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MOOD
mood
 n.  the prevailing psychological state
 n.  a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Classic Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  These alterations of mood were the despair and joy of Ethan Frome.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  His alteration of mood seemed to have communicated itself to Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  He said to himself that he had doubtless exaggerated the significance of Zeena's threats, and that she too, with the return of daylight, would come to a saner mood.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The strange exaltation of his mood had brought on one of his rare fits of boastfulness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  She lay back against the pillar in silence and Prissy, aware of her mood, tiptoed away into the darkness of the porch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  "I'll make a hant out of you if you don't get out of this wagon," said Scarlett, who was in no mood for argument, as she climbed lamely down to the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Scarlett waited a long moment in silence, hoping that Ashley would return to the mood in which he spoke of her beauty, hoping he would say more words that she could treasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  She was relieved to see his mood pass and good humor apparently return, so she smiled too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  He reappeared the next morning as she was breakfasting in her room, disheveled, quite drunk and in his worst sarcastic mood, and neither made excuses nor gave an account of his absence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  Glad there was some other place than this house to shelter Rhett until his glittering, murderous mood had passed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
11  Mrs. Trenor's summons, however, suddenly recalled her state of dependence, and she rose and dressed in a mood of irritability that she was usually too prudent to indulge.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  She was like a water-plant in the flux of the tides, and today the whole current of her mood was carrying her toward Lawrence Selden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  And the day was the accomplice of her mood: it was a day for impulse and truancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
14  Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  After a day of air and activity, you should be in the mood for a good meal.
2  Neil's colleagues say he was actually in a joking, upbeat mood.
3  Every ingestion of food can affect our mood or thinking processes.
4  He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
5  Life is a journey, not the destination, but the scenery along the should be and the mood at the view.
6  I am not in the mood to argue.
7  On the day after the terrorist attack, the overall mood in the town was one of vengeance.
8  Steve was in a particularly bad mood when he got back.
9  I'm just not in the mood for a party tonight.
10  I wonder why he's in such a mood today.
11  I walked on in a reflective mood to the car.
12  The city is in a festive / holiday mood.
13  It's clear that he has badly miscalculated the mood of the people.
14  He is clearly in a good mood today.
15  Congress is in a combative mood.